scholarly journals Error analysis of the students’ English written descriptive text

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-217
Author(s):  
Misla Nadya ◽  
Kismullah Abdul Muthalib

Making errors is a natural process of learning. Writing as a productive skill is important for students to express their ideas. However, students conducted errors in the productive skills. Therefore, this study is intended to find out types of errors made by students in written English. This study employed the qualitative method where the Error Analysis was implemented. The subject of this study is students in first grade of SMAN 1 Abdya and the object of this study were the errors found in written English. The population of this research was all of students in first grade which consists of 208 students from all study programs where 25 % of the populations were taken as the sample. To collect the data, written tests were conducted. The written test shows the percentage of writing errors, including omission errors, which is 58.38%, misformation errors with a total of 16.48%, misordering error 13.89%, and addition of 11.26%. The errors were found when students omitted 'to be' as main verb. Second, students tend to add 'to' after modal auxiliaries such as 'can' or 'will'. Third, misformation errors happened when students could not form the verb correctly. Last, the misordering errors were produced when students put words randomly. Consequently, it was discovered that the errors made by students were impacted by their native language, and this is the interlanguage move.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Firas Ali Suleiman Zawahreh

The objective of this study was investigating the written English errors of tenth grade students in females and males schools in Ajloun, Jordan. It was conducted on purpose of  identifying the written errors of English committed by the tenth grade, estimating the predominant errors and the least ones and explaining the causes of the written errors of English committed by the tenth grade students The sample of study consisted of 350 students selected randomly from group of schools in Ajloun. The students were asked to write a free essay about " A journey to the ancient city of Jerash in Jordan" in an ordinary English language exercise in the class. Then the essays collected and analyzed depending on a table of errors adopted from a Ph.D. of ( wakkad,1980).The findings were: First, the most predominant errors among tenth grade students in Ajloun schools within morphology were errors of lack of agreement between subject and the main verb. Second, the most predominant errors among tenth grade students in Ajloun schools within function words were errors of insertion of prepositions. Third, the most predominant errors among tenth grade students within syntax were errors of omission of the main verb. Fourth, the most predominant errors among tenth grade students within tenses were errors of using present instead of past. Fifth, the most predominant errors among tenth grade students within lexical items were errors of lexical items wrongly used in place of others. 


Author(s):  
Laura Silalahi ◽  
Rosa Maria Simamora ◽  
Anna Stasya Prima Sari

This research method used a case study method. The subject of this included the Seventh Grade Students of SMP Katolik Trisakti 1 Medan. Which is comprised of 30 stusents. In analysis the datan the writer collected the data from the students identifiedthe grammatical errors, classified the errors of using simple present tense in the students’ descriptive paragraph to determine the frequency of errors, and calculated the data into percentages. The data by using formula:P= fnx100%  P= Percentage, F= Frequency of error made, N= Total of students’ errors.the data was taken from the test: it was written test. The result demonstrate that the students’ errors can be categorized into four kinds of errors. Which include 14,7% errors of omission, 6,7% errors of additon, 73,3% errors in misformation and 5% error in misordering. The writer observed 218 total errors. The witer concluded that misformation was the dominant kind of errors Made by the Seventh Grade of SMP Katolik Trisakti 1 Medan. The teacher recommended practicing grammatical rules in Simple Present Tense in order to minimize the errors. Morever, other researchers can provide techniques in increase students’ mastery of simple present tense.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Rahmawati Wati ◽  
Ruth Debora Sari Dame Sitompul ◽  
Prencis Triiswati Tinambunan ◽  
Mirahati Harefa ◽  
Helmina Hepi Lismawati Laia

The objectives of this research are to find out the kinds of errors and the dominant error at the first grade students of SMP Swasta Kartika 1-2 Medan in constructing negative and interrogative sentences by using simple present tense in academic year 2019/2020. This research is a qualitative research with a descriptive method. The sample of this research were the first grade students of SMP Swasta Kartika 1-2 Medan with 28 students in VII-3s’ class. The data were gathered by using written test which consisted of 20 questions and were analysed by the researchers with identify each error that made by the students. The findings showed there were 197 (35,55%) case of errors on misformation as a type of dominant; 177 (31,94%) case of errors on omission; 165 (29,78%) case of errors on addition; and 15 (2,70%) case of errors on misordering. In conclusion there were 4 kinds of errors, namely: omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Where error of misformation was type of dominant errors. Keywords: Error, Error Analysis, Simple Present Tense


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Yudha Suranta P Siregar ◽  
Natalia Widya Pasca Tarigan ◽  
Cindy Ika Mawarni ◽  
Christine Widyantari Br Simanjuntak ◽  
Alfian Tanjaya

This research aims to classify and analyze students’ types and sources of errors in writing recount text using simple past tense. This research used descriptive qualitative research. Furthermore, researchers used a written test and chose the 2nd grade students of Senior High School and observed 20 students. It was found the students do all the types of errors. Selection errors was the most common types of errors with 94 or 44,98% of errors. The second was the omission errors with 56 or 26,79% of errors. The third was the addition errors with 43 or 20,57% of errors. Then the last was misordering errors with 16 or 07,66% of errors. Furthermore, the errors weren’t caused by Indonesian language’s system but the complexity of English language’s system. Moreover, the lack of students’ understandings of grammar was the cause of the errors. In this research, most of the students didn’t understand present and past form of the verbs. It can be concluded that students had difficulty in writing using properly grammar because the English language’s system. Keywords: error analysis, types of errors, sources of errors.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Jaimah Jaimah

The background of this research is the low of mathematics learning result of grade 1 student of SDN 004Tembilahan Kota, for that done perbaiakan learning process by applying method of discussion. This researchwas conducted in SDN 004 Tembilahan Kota with the subject of research is the first grade students with 36students. This research is a classroom action research conducted two cycles. Based on the results of theresearch, it is found that the use of the method of disuksi can improve the students' learning outcomes aboutknowing and determining the length and weight with nonstandard units using concrete objects / concretesituation in the initial data, the total number of completed students is 12 students (33.3%) average 55.83. In thefirst cycle has increased the number of students who complete is 26 students (77.22%) with an average value of80.00. In the second cycle has increased with the total number of students who completed is 32 students (88.89)with an average value of 88.06.


Author(s):  
José Antonio González ◽  
Mónica Giuliano ◽  
Silvia N. Pérez

AbstractResearch on impact in student achievement of online homework systems compared to traditional methods is ambivalent. Methodological issues in the study design, besides of technological diversity, can account for this uncertainty. Hypothesis This study aims to estimate the effect size of homework practice with exercises automatically provided by the ‘e-status’ platform, in students from five Engineering programs. Instead of comparing students using the platform with others not using it, we distributed the subject topics into two blocks, and created nine probability problems for each block. After that, the students were randomly assigned to one block and could solve the related exercises through e-status. Teachers and evaluators were masked to the assignation. Five weeks after the assignment, all students answered a written test with questions regarding all topics. The study outcome was the difference between both blocks’ scores obtained from the test. The two groups comprised 163 and 166 students. Of these, 103 and 107 respectively attended the test, while the remainder were imputed with 0. Those assigned to the first block obtained an average outcome of −1.85, while the average in the second block was −3.29 (95% confidence interval of difference, −2.46 to −0.43). During the period in which they had access to the platform before the test, the average total time spent solving problems was less than three hours. Our findings provide evidence that a small amount of active online work can positively impact on student performance.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenny - Thresia

The purpose of this study was study analyze the students’ error in writing argumentative essay. The researcher focuses on errors of verb, concord and learner language. This study took 20 students as the subject of research from the third semester. The data took from observation and documentation. Based on the result of the data analysis there are some errors still found on the student’s argumentative essay in English writing? The common errors which repeatedly appear are verb. The second is concord, and learner languages are the smallest error. From 20 samples that took, the frequency the errors of verb are 12 items (60%), concord are 8 items (40%), learner languages are 7 items (35%). As a result, verb has the biggest number of common errors.


2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miftahul Huda

Language acquisition starts from the ability of listening basic letter(iktisab al-ashwat) since child age. The letter of a language is limited in number, and sometimes there is similarity of letters among languages. The similarity of letters in two languages make it easy to learn the language. On the contrary, the obstacle of language learning can be caused by different letters between two languages (mother tongue and second/foreign language). The problem may be caused by minimal pairs (tsunaiyat al-shughro). This research aims at finding out the error of minimal pair acquisition, with the subject of Indonesian students in Jami’ah Malik Saud Saudi Arabia, with the method of error analysis. The study concludes that in iktisab al-ashwat of minimal pairs, the error is around 3,3 %-58,3%. Second: the error on minimal pairs occurs on the letters shift ?? ?? ? to be ? , letter ? to be ? , letter ? to be ? , letter ? to be ? , letter ? to be ?? , and letter ? to be ?.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terasne Terasne ◽  
Nanag Sugianto

The research is aimed to the use of think inside the box strategy be able to improve students vocabulary mastery. The subject of this study was 20 students at second grade students of SMPN 4 Praya Barat Daya. In which consist of 8 males and 12 females. It was classroom action research with two cycles, each cycles of four steps: planning, acting, observing and reflecting. The data gathering used written test, and questionnaires and analyzed by using quantitative and qualitative approach. At the result of the first cycle was failed where the mean score of pre test was 62.35 and class percentage was 30% and he mean score of post test was 70.25 and class percentage was 65% and the result of the second cycle that the mean score was 80,2 and the class percentage was 80% indicating the target of 75 of the minimum criterion has been achieved, it means that the action was stopped.


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